Welcome! This is a space where we will collate, evaluate and implement decision support tools.

First step for adding decision support: drug contra-indications. To be implemented by Barry Levine's team in San Francisco, this module will exist in the back end, interact with pharmacy, and send alerts when a certain drug is prescribed with another that could cause harmful effects in tandem.

Relevant links:-

Studies of clinical decision support

A paper by D Blumenthal et al explaining its relevance in HITECH
A paper by Fahhad Farrukhi explaining why this is important
1997_Lobach_12625.pdf
A book by Marc Berg
A study of legal liability in the age of decision support
They might have limited benefit in high-resource settings.

Guideline Modeling Methods (GMMs) and Medical logic modules (MLMs)

OpenClinical
- Summary of many GMMs
- Comparison of many GMMs
Arden Syntax
- Arden at OpenMRS
- Open Source Arden2ByteCode compiler
GELLO
- Compiler
HL7 FAQ
DXplain at the Massachusetts General Hospital Lab of Computer Science

Please feel free to add to this repository!

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